Problems in Literary Translation

The course will be run as an advanced workshop in literary translation.   Each student will have a translation project that he or she will work on throughout the semester.  There are no restrictions as to language, literary genre, or historical period.  Each week, two students will circulate specimens of their translations via email, and the class will then be devoted to detailed discussion of their work.   Though in the past some participants have aspired to be translators (and three published volumes of translation have so far issued from these seminars), the basic premise of the course is that translation is a deeply instructive process about the workings of any literary text and that all students of literature can benefit from applying themselves for a time to translation.